Senate President Pro Tem Marc Basnight's "Lone Cedar" restaurant sells a t-shirt commemorating the rapid rebuilding of the Nags Head eatery with a racy touch.
The long-sleeve shirt in black-with-white-letters or the better-selling white-with-black-letters declares: "Fastest erection on the beach."
The restaurant burned in early May 2007. State investigators declared it arson but have made no arrests, and they have said Basnight and his family are not suspects. Four months later, the Lone Cedar was rebuilt and open for business. The restaurant's gift shop began selling the shirt soon after. (Dome is embarrassed to just now learn of it.)
Basnight said through a spokesman that his adult daughters, Vicki and Caroline, created the shirt and began selling it. They manage the restaurant.
"They didn't ask him," said Schorr Johnson, Basnight's spokesman. "He has never approved of it, and he doesn't like it."
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Re: T-shirt sales rise
If I am not mistaken this t-shirt phrase is the literal translation of "Esse Quam Videri."